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Foul Play is an homage to director Alfred Hitchcock, [5] several of whose films are referenced during the film. The premise of an innocent person becoming entangled in a web of intrigue is common in Hitchcock films, such as The 39 Steps , Saboteur , North by Northwest and, most notably, The Man Who Knew Too Much , which inspired the opera house ...
Foul Play is an American drama series that aired from January 26 until August 23, 1981 on ABC. The series was based on the 1978 film of the same name , and retained many of the same characterizations, as well as the San Francisco setting of the film.
Foul Play or Foul play may refer to: Foul play, unfair, unethical, or criminal behaviour; Foul Play, 1869, by Charles Reade; Foul Play, British; Foul Play, Spanish; Foul Play, American; Foul Play, by Dennis Brown; Foul Play, 1981; Foul Play, 2013; Foul (sports), act of a player violating the rules of a sport or game
Colin Higgins (28 July 1941 – 5 August 1988) was an Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director, and producer. He was best known for writing the screenplay for the 1971 film Harold and Maude, [1] and for directing the films Foul Play (1978) and 9 to 5 (1980).
Both the 45 RPM single and the track on Manilow's hit collections are monaural, despite being labeled otherwise. The only source for this song in true stereo is the original Foul Play soundtrack, which is missing some elements of the single (a harp at 0:25 and orchestration beginning at 0:45, and a piano glissando at 2:18 is mixed way down).
Paramount wanted Fawcett for the lead in Foul Play but were reluctant to hire her with a lawsuit hanging over her head. Poll however signed her to make Somebody Killed Her Husband for a fee of nearly $1 million. [3] Filming took place in November 1977. [4]
The Door to Doom and Other Detections - 1980 (includes radio plays) The Dead Sleep Lightly - 1983 (radio plays) Fell and Foul Play - 1991 (includes the full version of The Third Bullet and the short story 'Harem-Scarem', not in any other collection) The Kindling Spark: Early Tales of Mystery, Horror, and Adventure--2022. Apprentice stories ...
Foul Play is an 1869 melodramatic or sensation novel by the British writer Charles Reade. In Victorian Britain a clergyman is wrongly convicted of a crime and transported to Australia. He is shipwrecked with an aristocratic woman on the hitherto uncharted "Godsend Island" in the South Pacific. Eventually he is rescued and vindicated of his crime.